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When Article 50 starts to apply

Article 50 starts to apply on 2 August 2026, a date set by Article 113 rather than by Article 50 itself. The source this record reads flags the article's text as amended, which is the reason every entry here carries a check date. As of 2026-09-12.

Where the application date for this article actually comes fromArticle 50 starts to apply on 2 August 2026, and that date is set by Article 113 rather than by Article 50 itself. The source read for this record flags the article's text as amended, which is the reason every entry here carries a check date as well as a recorded date.Article 50The dutiesNo date of its ownWhat has to be doneArticle 113The date2 August 2026When it startsWhat a production needs to knowThe text is flagged as amended, so every entry carries a check date
Fig. 1 The date lives in a different article from the duties, which is the commonest way to get it wrong. The amended marker is why the check date exists.
The date, where it comes from, and what the amended marker means for entries here. Recorded 2026-09-12.
PointWhere it sitsWhat the record holds
Date of application2 August 2026Set by Article 113
Status of the textFlagged as amendedMarker shown at the end of the article text
What that implies for this recordRe-reading, not re-reasoningCheck dates move on every review

Inclusion rule. Dates stated in the instrument or in the source reading of it. Commencement inferred from press coverage is not recorded. Order. As the points follow from each other.

1A date in another article is easy to miss and easy to get wrong

Article 50 contains no commencement date of its own. The date lives in Article 113, which is where the regulation sets out when each part of it starts to apply. A reader who reads Article 50 alone comes away with duties and no clock.

That structure is ordinary in EU instruments and it is a recurring source of confusion in secondary coverage, where the regulation's entry into force and the application date of a particular article are frequently treated as the same event. They are not.

2Why an amended marker changes how a record has to behave

If the text of an article can be amended, then a reading of it is a reading as at a date, and a record that quotes it without saying when it was read is making a claim it cannot support. That is the reason every fact row on this site carries two dates: when the value was first recorded, and when it was last confirmed against the source.

Confirming an unchanged value still advances the second date. On a record of law that matters more than usual, because the dangerous state is not a wrong entry but a right one that nobody has looked at since the text moved.

3What a production can do with a date that has not arrived

A future application date is not a reason to postpone reading the article, because the decisions it touches, how footage is marked and what gets recorded about it, are made when a production is set up rather than when a regulation starts to apply.

This record takes no position on what anyone should do before or after that date. It holds the date, its source, and the fact that the text it came from is marked as having been changed.

4Sources

Article wording from AI Act Explorer, Article 50; vendor statements from the pages listed on each generator entry. Both read 2026-09-12. Related: What nobody publishes, The other duties, Who is bound.